Re^3: Avoiding silly programming mistakes

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Re^4: Avoiding silly programming mistakes by olus (Curate) on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:49 UTC
Read the documentation carefully, pay attention, sleep well, take pauses and don't drink. Those may help in preventing making mistakes, but does not guarantee they won't happen. I'm a bit far from 22 years of experience in programming and still make silly mistakes. Good practices like the ones pointed by GrandFather will help spotting errors faster. In your comments I don't see you helping missingthepoint either not making mistakes nor figuring them out.	[reply]
Re^5: Avoiding silly programming mistakes by wol (Hermit) on Aug 20, 2008 at 15:37 UTC
Sleep well Absolutely (and to help acheive this, don't have children till you're in management). don't drink Unless you'd like to return to your work to be dumbstruck by the arcane working of your mind when augmented with alcohol. Perhaps it could be used to help obfuscation? http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm	[reply]
Re^6: Avoiding silly programming mistakes by TGI (Parson) on Aug 22, 2008 at 22:52 UTC
It's proven incredibly hard to hit and maintain the Balmer Peak. TGI says moo	[reply]
Re^4: Avoiding silly programming mistakes by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:31 UTC
The OP was concerned about problems that can be slow to find and quick to fix. My point is that an early heads up about typos and other similar errors can save a lot of time. Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing	[reply]